The Giraffe

Virginia and Irv from Langley, and Chuck and Karen from Kamloops arrived Sunday. We had 8 Sirloin hamburgers at the Clubhouse that we'd won in pool and bocci tournaments.
Monday, the ladies went off and toured through Palm Springs, stopped at Ruby's for a look. This is a hamburger diner straight out of the 60's, all done in black, red and white with curved booths and counters. We had lunch at the Elephant Bar, a great place with bamboo, palm fronds, statues of elephants and monkeys and amazing pictures of animals in the wild.
Next stop was the Living Desert, a wild animal park. We toured the Butterfly Exhibit, another of Gini's favorites and then watched the giraffes. I wasn't fast enough to get a picture of the baby born last Aug., but here's his mom. They were being shy and didn't come over to where we were but they were so nice to see.

Bocci Ball

Ron and Mike play bocci ball every Tuesday and Thursday. CJ and Joan joined in while they were here. Here's Ron and Frank who runs it. Winners get a free Sirloin hamburger at the Sunday night BBQ.

Happy New Year 2007

We welcomed the new year with Sharon and Mike from Oregon and
Cj and Joan. We played pegs and jokers and Wizard at Cj and Joan's cabin and nibbled on appies and cheesecake.

Christmas 2006

We had a lovely Christmas with Joan and CJ from our home Friday night pool group, who are here for 2 weeks, Glen from Hemet, Ron's crib buddy from home and Mike ( Sharon flew home for holidays with the grandkids). We are having lovely weather - image sunning by the pool and swimming before you cook your turkey dinner!

George's Deli

Our friends Joan and Cj arrived Dec. 22 for 2 weeks. They run our Friday night pool league at the Elks back home in White Rock.
Our usual Christmas Eve tradition is to have lovely cold cuts, breads, cheeses and liver pate. On the 23rd, we went off to George's Deli in Cala Mesa, a small town, about 45 minutes east. We enjoyed a great German hot deli lunch and then bought all our goodies.

Happy Hour in the sunshine

There were 14 of us today so we decided on a no host day and we'd meet in the sunshine in the vacant spot across from us in Desert Pools. Everyone brought longs pants and a jacket because when the sun goes down behind Mount San Jacinto, it gets cool in the desert. This is the mountain that the Palm Springs Aerial Tram is on and you can go up 8,516 ft. to the top and hike on the trials, in the snow, dine and enjoy the view down over the Coachella Valley, all the way to the Salton Sea, about 80 miles away.
Needless to say, our visiting was fun and a good time was had by all.

Festival of Lights

Sharon, Mike, Ron and I met Myrna and Roger downtown Palm Springs for the Festival of Lights, which is the night the beginning of the Christmas Season is welcomed with a lighted parade. We had a fabulous dinner at Pepper's Thai Restaurant, seated on the sidewalk with a front row view. The parade was great with marching bands, horses, vehicles, floats, all lighted to the full. Many attended and it took over an hour to get out of town and back to the RV Park.